In this Richard Jury adventure, Martha Grimes takes
listeners to Ashdown Dean, a little English village where animals are dying in
a series of seemingly innocuous accidents. While the puzzling deaths of village
pets may raise some idle gossip over a pint or two at the Deer Leap, the
village pub, this hardly seems a case for Superintendent Jury of Scotland Yard.
Nor does it seem much of a challenge for the combined deductive powers of Jury
and Melrose, the affable former Earl of Caverness.

It is his mystery-writing, amethyst-eyed friend, Polly
Praed, who drags Plant and Jury to Ashdown Dean. The impatient Polly, having
yanked open a call box in the pouring rain, is ill prepared for what lands at
her feet. The now-deadly case is cause for calling in Scotland Yard.

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“Witty and deeply moving…Readers will feel its impact for a long time.”

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About the Author

Martha Grimes was
born in Pennsylvania. Grimes earned her BA and MA at the University of
Maryland. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Frostburg State University,
and Montgomery College. Grimes is best known for her series of novels featuring
Richard Jury, an inspector with Scotland Yard, and his friend Melrose Plant, a
British aristocrat who has given up his titles. Each of the Jury mysteries is
named after a pub. Her page-turning, character-driven tales fall into the mystery
subdivision of “cozies.” In 1983, Grimes received the Nero Wolfe Award for best
mystery of the year for The Anodyne
Necklace. She splits her time between homes in Washington, DC, and Santa
Fe, New Mexico.

About the Narrator

Steve West, the winner of ten Audiofile Earphones Awards for narration, is an actor of international standing. He is known for his appearances on London’s West End Stage in Mamma Mia!, contemporary plays, and Shakespearean classics. He has appeared in Hollywood movies and on television screens in the United States and the United Kingdom and performed for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. His work has also been screened at the Cannes International Film Festival.

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